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While most of the attention related to the IRS scandal has rightly focused on Tea Party and Patriot groups, a significant level of attention over the last few years was given to people adopting, pro-life groups, and at least one prominent organization supporting traditional marriage. While Tea Party Patriots does not take a position on any social issues, the implications of one agent’s actions should be concerning for all Americans.
From The Blaze (h/t to Mary Katharine Ham):
Alliance Defending Freedom, a pro-life legal group, released audio on Monday of a conversation between Ania Joseph, president of Pro-Life Revolution, and Sherry Wan, an ...

Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is in hot water for apparently flip-flopping regarding his position on the role of the U.S. Senate in considering presidential nominees.
"The duties of the United States Senate are set out in the Constitution of the United States. Nowhere in that document does it say the Senate has a duty to give presidential nominees a vote; it says appointments shall be made 'with the advice and consent of the Senate.' That's very different than saying that every nominee receives a vote," Sen. Reid said May of 2005 on the Senate Floor, C-SPAN footage shows.
The U.S. Senate minority leader has been arguing the Senate is bound to ...

The Internal Revenue Service in 2015 turned down tax-exempt-status applications from nearly 60 religious and charitable groups, according to recent agency data.
Washington Free Beacon has the details:
The IRS rejected a total of 67 applications for tax-exempt status in 2015, and religious groups comprised the majority of denials. There were 92,653 total applications by religious and charitable groups in 2015. Of those applications, 86,915 were approved, 57 were denied, and 5,681 were left in limbo.
Attorney Jordan Sekulow, executive director of the American Center for Law and Justice, represents a number of conservative and pro-life ...

Hello, CPAC!
You know, the President of the United States last addressed this gathering eight years ago.
Do the math – it was a different president then.
As he sat in the Oval Office, preparing for that speech, he came across a phrase in the draft that confused him.
So he asked, “What is this movement you keep talking about in the speech?”
The speechwriter, stunned, responded.
“Well, the CONSERVATIVE movement,” he answered. “You know, the one that started back in the sixties, when conservative groups first took root.”
That apparently didn’t sit well with the President. “Let me tell you something,” he said. ...

CALENDAR:
The House is out of session Monday through Wednesday, then will return Thursday for a Joint Meeting of Congress to receive Pope Francis. Then they will stay in session through Friday.
The Senate will return on Monday, with no votes scheduled until Tuesday, and stay in session through Friday.
LAST WEEK ON THE HOUSE FLOOR:
The House had a short week last week – they were out for Rosh Hashanah on Monday and Tuesday, and didn’t come back into session until Wednesday. That day was spent on bills brought up under Suspension of the Rules. Ten of them passed by voice vote, and two of them passed by roll call votes with more than ...

On July 29th both Tea Party Patriots CEO and Co-Founder Jenny Beth Martin, and Tea Party Patriots legal counsel Cleta Mitchell appeared before the Senate Subcommittee on oversight, agency action, federal rights and federal courts to give testimony on the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups. Below is the video, and text of the testimony.
You can see our complete timeline of Tea Party Patriots issues with IRS targeting here: http://www.teapartypatriots.org/irs-timeline/
September Update
During the hearing on July 29, Senator Whitehouse made several false statements to or about Tea Party Patriots. We want to set the record ...

HEALTHCARE:
One in four Americans who got insurance still can’t afford medical care: Study
“One in four people who bought health insurance on their own couldn’t afford medical care last year, according to a study released Thursday that shows out-of-pockets costs are still getting between Americans and their doctors despite Obamacare’s progress in cutting the ranks of the uninsured. Families USA studied people who purchased insurance in the non-group market — they weren’t covered through their jobs or a public program — in 2014, the first full year for which Obamacare’s marketplace was fully operational, and found 25.2 percent ...

TEA PARTY PATRIOTS:
Tea Party first to cheer Cruz bid (quote by Jenny Beth)
“He's a leader of the Tea Party in Washington, so it's not a surprise that Tea Party leaders are heaping praise on Sen. Ted Cruz's presidential announcement today. Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder of Tea Party Patriots, was the first to embrace Cruz, noting his firm stands on conservative principles. "It's fitting that Sen. Ted Cruz is the first announced candidate in the GOP presidential field," Martin said in a statement. "In his two short years in the Senate, he has yielded to no one in championing the values of personal freedom, economic freedom and a debt-free ...

HEALTHCARE:
Congressional Research Service: There's No Magic Pot Of Obamacare Medicaid Expansion Money
“A recent report from the Congressional Research Service (CRS) confirms what many policy experts have known for some time: states that reject Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion aren’t sending that Medicaid expansion money to other states. Instead, that money is simply never spent. This revelation is important because numerous governors and state lawmakers from across the country have used this argument to justify their support for expanding Medicaid through Obamacare. However, as CRS succinctly explains, these arguments are entirely frivolo...

TEA PARTY PATRIOTS:
Cruz, Sessions, Lee & Tea Party Patriots Wade In Against McConnell DHS Funding Betrayal
“…To further complicate matters for McConnell the grassroots army of the Tea Party Patriots yesterday released a call to action saying: Throughout the election cycle Republicans vowed to do everything they could to stop the President's overreach. Now, the Republicans in the Senate under Majority Leader McConnell's guidance are playing games. Today we have learned that Sen. McConnell's plan is to bring a bill to the Senate floor that would fully fund the Department of Homeland Security without defunding executive amnesty! Congress ...